By now, most of us have seen the map of the path for the Aug. 21 solar eclipse — that band of totality bisecting the United States from Oregon to South Carolina.

In the mapmaking community, however, one simple map of a super-hyped celestial event is not enough. What of other variables affecting the nation's eclipse-viewing pleasure? The odds of traffic ruining the experience, for example?

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We're happy to say there's a map for that. As well as a map of Starbucks shops in the path of totality for those who need a caffeine fix before they don their safety sunglasses.

But that's just the beginning.

The eclipse map has triggered a spree of cartography oneupmanship, with each succeeding map vying to goofier than its predecessor. (A complete collection compiled by GIS coordinator Dan Harelb can be found here.)

Even NASA picked up the gauntlet. Joshua Stevens, data visualization analyst and cartographer for NASA's Earth Observatory, overlaid the eclipse map with Bigfoot sightings to produce the "Best spots to see the eclipse and Bigfoot ... at the same time."

It was all downhill after that, with aliens, waffle houses, cemeteries and even (shudder) Forrest Gump.